On May 25, 2012, President Obama announced that the United States would spend the next thirteen years – through November 11, 2025 – commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War, and the American soldiers, “more than 58,000 patriots,” who died in Vietnam. The fact that at least 2.1 million Vietnamese – soldiers, parents, grandparents, children – also died in that war will be largely unknown and entirely uncommemorated. And U.S. history barely stops to record the millions of Vietnam...

Crisis and Commonwealth: Marcuse, Marx, McLaren advances Marcuse scholarship by presenting four hitherto untranslated and unpublished manuscripts by Herbert Marcuse from the Frankfurt University Archive on themes of economic value theory, socialism, and humanism. Contributors to this edited collection, notably Peter Marcuse, Henry Giroux, Peter McLaren, Zvi Tauber, Arnold L. Farr and editor, Charles Reitz, are deeply engaged with the foundational theories of Marcuse and Marx with regard to...

A timely commentary on today's New Cold War between the United States and RussiaKarl Marx famously wrote in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon that history repeats itself, “first as tragedy, then as farce.” The Cold War waged between the United States and Soviet Union from 1945 until the latter's dissolution in 1991 was a great tragedy, resulting in millions of civilian deaths in proxy wars, and a destructive arms race that diverted money from social spendin...

Say hello to Rocky Marciano, the world's only undefeated heavyweight champion, a guy called Rocky Marciano. With just a 67-inch reach, two left feet and under six feet tall, Marciano blasted his way to 49 wins, 43 inside the distance. You could knock him down but you couldn't knock him out. Marciano KO'd Jersey Joe Walcott in a 1952 thriller to become world champion. Defending his title five times, he brought the million-dollar gate back to boxing in 1955 when he crushed Archie Moore in hi...

toponymity , n. The condition of being named after a geographic location.It's no secret that America's cookouts owe a lot to the German townsof Frankfurt and Hamburg. Likewise, we know when we put on the wool of agoat from India's Kashmir valley. But did you know that the town ofSpa, Belgium, bequeathed to us a new form of healthy relaxation? Or thatTuxedo Park, New York, brought Americans a staple of formal wear? Thesetowns, it t...

The intriguing tale of why the United States has never adopted the metric system, and what that says about us.The American standard system of measurement is a unique and odd thing to behold with its esoteric, inconsistent standards: twelve inches in a foot, three feet in a yard, sixteen ounces in a pound, one hundred pennies to the dollar. For something as elemental as counting and estimating the world around us, it seems like a confusing tool to use. So how did we...

¿Por qué existe algo en vez de nada? Más en concreto, ¿por qué existe el universo? ¿De dónde vino y hacia dónde va, si es que se encamina a algún sitio? ¿Constituye la realidad última o hay un más allá? ¿Se puede preguntar por el significado de toda la realidad, o tenía razón Bertrand cuando dijo que "el universo está ahí y no hay más"? Aunque la ciencia con todo su poder no puede lidiar con algunas de las preguntas fundamentales que hemos hecho, el universo contiene ciertas pistas sobre n...

The Benevento cousins return for more adventures in the ancient town that's famous for its witches!The Benevento children are excitedly preparing for the annual Boar Hunt, where the prize of the Golden Tusk is given to the ten-year old who catches the boar. No girl has ever competed, but Rosa is determined to take part -- and win! She refuses to stay home and help take care of the new baby and cook and clean. She will just have to run away.Life was very dif...

The exciting adventures of the Benevento cousins continue, as Primo discovers the identity of the secret Janara.Primo has been given a tantalizing clue about the secret Janara: the Janara lives with him! How can he discover who it is? Only that success will console him for his humiliating defeat at the boar hunt, where Rosa was the winner. Rosa!! Girls are not even supposed to compete.One night Primo finds a clue. Behind the head of the goddess Diana, the a...

Comprehensive review of each step in the value chain for mango cultivation, from breeding new varieties to post-harvest storageCoverage of advances in mango genetics and understanding genetic diversityStrong focus on understanding and preventing post-harvest losses

They're mad, they're bad, and they're about to ruin Christmas!No kids get coal in their stocking these days. Do you know why? It's thanks to The No-Good Nine!Pittsburgh, 1931. When Peter awakens on Christmas morning to find his stocking full of coal, he is outraged. After he finds the Naughty List, which contains the names of some other children who received no gifts, he decides they should band together and journey to Santa's workshop to plead their case, a...

The third book in an exciting new chapter book series by John Bemelmans Marciano and Caldecott medalist Sophie Blackall.Welcome to Benevento, an ancient town famous for its witches!The children of Benevento have to be careful and clever to evade the clutches of such witches as the Manalonga, the Janara, and the Clopper, who hide in wells and under bridges, fly at midnight, and play tricks during Mischief Season.Five...